JeffG
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My newest old rifle after being baptized with its 1st deer kill last week. It's a 1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer in 6.5x54.
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Very nice!
My newest old rifle after being baptized with its 1st deer kill last week. It's a 1903 Mannlicher-Schoenauer in 6.5x54.
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Very nice!
I really like that ammo wallet.Close but no cigar...
16/16 over 8x57... I load 200 NP's at 2550fps, and it's put thousands of pounds of meat in my freezer, from moose and blk. bear on down.
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Thank you. The set trigger allowed me to shoot the buck left-handed while leaning left to see around trees. It is about a 10 oz. trigger when set.
Thanks, I made it from canvas and deer skin leather, LONG time ago...I really like that ammo wallet.
I cringed when I read that somebody carved on the stock....but actually it's not bad. Pretty darned good in fact.Winchester 94. 30 30. Made in 1965. The Worst gun Winchester ever made. So some say. But yet. Here it is. Near 60 years later. Still going. Ready for another 60.
Somebody really cared about this gun. You can tell by the carvings in the stock. The gun didn't leave the Winchester factory with the carvings. Someone had to add them later. I wish I knew who.
Sometime in the 1990s my wife decided she wanted to go deer hunting with me. First time she ever showed interest. I knew it wouldn't last. She didn't like the cold then. No more than she does now.
So one day we stopped by the pawn shop to see what they had. All they had was this 94, 30 30. When I cycled the action, about half way it wanted to hang. Just a little effort to complete was needed. I figured it needed a good cleaning and oil. The guy wanted $125 for the gun. I pointed out the hang up and offered $75 or $100. I don't remember. Anyway we took the gun home. I didn't know anything about disassembling and reassembling a lever action at that time. So I just flushed out the action with gun scrubber, then flushed it again with ----"well, I can't tell you with what because some here will get all upset and say bad bad bad. But I will say 39+1 ". Then I oiled all the moving parts. After. The action moved smooth as butter. No hang up at all. Perfect.
A little practice and my wife was ready to go deer hunting.
On the first day, Of her first hunt, With her first shot She killed her First Deer. One shot. The deer dropped in its tracks. No chasing, No tracking. It dropped where it stood.
As I thought. That was her first and last hunt.
Soon after I learned to disassemble and reassemble a lever action Winchester 94, 30 30. I took the gun apart and inspected each part. All the edges of each part were crisp and sharp. Very few wear marks on any of the moving parts. I would say all the working parts in that 30 year old gun were in fine shape. The bluing around the receiver outside the gun was a little thin and even gone around the edges. But in good shape over the rest of the gun without a single pit or spot of rust even where the blueing has worn. "That's what that stuff I can't tell you will do for a gun (wd). My guess the bluing was worn down around the receiver over the years by carrying or holding the gun in that area. No splinters, Chips or many dings in the wood.
Now. Here it is. Near another 30 years later. Ready for another 60. (sorry about photos, I don't know how it got two of each) OView attachment 1127679 View attachment 1127680 View attachment 1127681 View attachment 1127682 View attachment 1127683 ver the years that I've had the gun not single fail of any kind.The Worst gun Winchester ever made.View attachment 1127679 View attachment 1127680 View attachment 1127682 View attachment 1127683
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Top: Tikka T3, .243 Win varmint and youth deer rifle. Excellent shooter!
Bottom: Rem 700 ADL, 243 Win varmint rifle. Even a more accurate rifle. Bedded and rebarreled to .243 Win. Factory stock.
Both rifles have been used to dispatch varmints (Coyotes, chucks, etc.) on our property and son's fields.
Those are sweet. I saw one in 260 Rem a few years ago that was cool. Also the new ones with the thick carbon barrel are really cool.This is my savage 110 lightweight storm, in 6.5 CM. Its a great light little rifle, and very deadly...
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I had one left-handed shot from a tree stand and it was the favorite shot of my hunting lifetime. The deer saw me and started running when my rifle was laying on its side on the tree stand platform. No time to switch (hands) as the deer had started sprinting toward the woods, only about 60 yards away. I fired as the rifle hit my shoulder and the deer went down, about 50 yards away. Despite the shot being a kill shot, I put another in the neck, as he tried to get up. I just sat there, taking-in what had just happened! I'd never shot a center-fire rifle left-handed before and it didn't hurt my face or shoulder. It was the best harvest of a deer in a lifetime of hunting. I then called my son to come help me take care of it and transport it by tractor/loader the half-mile or so to my house.
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"Picher, post: 12480912, member: 7914"]I had one left-handed shot from a tree stand and it was the favorite shot of my hunting lifetime. The deer saw me and started running when my rifle was laying on its side on the tree stand platform. No time to switch (hands) as the deer had started sprinting toward the woods, only about 60 yards away. I fired as the rifle hit my shoulder and the deer went down, about 50 yards away. Despite the shot being a kill shot, I put another in the neck, as he tried to get up. I just sat there, taking-in what had just happened! I'd never shot a center-fire rifle left-handed before and it didn't hurt my face or shoulder. It was the best harvest of a deer in a lifetime of hunting. I then called my son to come help me take care of it and transport it by tractor/loader the half-mile or so to my house.
That rifle is way too pretty to not take it hunting and admire it out in the sunshine. A rifle is built for hunting, to not use it for its intended purpose is just turning it into a pretty bauble. It is your rifle to do with as you wish. Me I would take it hunting.This Rem. M-700 BDL in .30/06 is a nice hunting rifle, but I've never hunted with it and never will. I spotted it in a gunshop and bought it because I like pretty wood and it's the best I've ever seen on a 700.View attachment 1129961 View attachment 1129962
That is lovely wood. I like the feel of thumb hole stocks and own 2 muzzle loaders a TC Thunder hawk and a Knight Wolverine that have them. Makes them much more comfortable and stable to shoot off hand.This is my favorite Hunting rifle : It is a highly modified 600 Remington in .308 Winchester. It no longer has this scope, it has a Swarovski Z5i 2.4x12x50 now in lightweight mounts . Whole rifle with a sling and scope and 4 rounds in mag weighs 7.25 pound and hangs from the hand with muzzle at ankle level with a 18 1/2" barrel plus a very effective break . They will bury me with this . Actually have other go to rifles but this is my very favorite hunting rifle and will do it all. Incredibly accurate too !
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